Mantra of the Month – Get Out of Your Head

Too often we live inside our heads and formulate responses to situations before we give them a try. We question everything or automatically think of the worst that could happen. Sometimes, it is us who block our blessings by our preconceived notions. So for this month, I’m urging myself and others to let’s get out of our heads and experience things for what they are. To do this we have to:

1/ Stop Overthinking: Yes, I know we all desperately want to achieve our goals or set plans but we can also ruin them before anything happens. Stop second guessing yourself and start believing in your actions.

2/ Go With the Flow: The best things in life are unexpected/spontaneous . You don’t have to plan out everything because more than usual things don’t go as planned.

3/ Think Positively: Stop worrying and have faith that things will work out in your favor. What’s for you will be for you. Don’t compare your success to anyone else’s, you’ll get there when it’s your time.

Love how you structured this, I felt like I got a little peek into your world & your thoughts! I’m really curious about how you made the decision to upgrade your WordPress plan instead self-hosting. I’m currently looking into moving to my own domain but am feeling stuck. I want WordPress plugins, but I’m just not sure which route to take. Self-hosting seems like there’s a big learning curve and a lot of other things, like security, to see about. But it’s cheaper than a WordPress business plan, which is the only one that will let me get plugins. Upgrading my plan feels like there’ll be a lot less of a learning curve and less to manage, although at a much higher cost.

Also, I did a free Instagram course called Instagram Marketing Mastermind by Alex Tooby. I saw decent results from it, and probably still would if I posted consistently (oops). Maybe it’ll help you out too? There’s also a Facebook group for the course that I found to be a great resource. I learned about all kinds of marketing and instagram tools I’d never heard of.

Well your thoughts are the exact ones I had. I was so confused as to who I should use for hosting, kept reading different reviews, the need for extra security n so much more I was overwhelmed. And because I really wanted my own domain mainly I just decided to upgrade with wordpress and see how it goes from there. But I know sooner or later I’m going to want other stuff that aren’t included in the personal plan. It’s a hard choice 😧😩

I guess this is one of those figure-out-as-you-go kind of things. I’m leaning towards self-hosting based on cost + plugins, but we’ll see. I’m telling myself that I can always come back to WordPress if it doesn’t work out!

I am so inspired by your post! It was right on time. I’m over here evaluating and re-valuating next steps, which is good, but now I think I need to just get out of my own head and let it flow.
Btw: I’m going to check out the Soca jam you mentioned. I need some new jams in my playlist.

Will do! Thanks for reading, yeah it definitely is so I’m slowly giving up on it…For my blog I first started off with adding my links to twitter chains and engaging with others. Especially when a particular blog page on twitter does chats or blog post shares. Main thing is finding blogs and engaging with others and they’d return the favor. Hope that helps! xoxo

I struggle with Instagram too. I have no idea how people grow it at all. This motivation was needed and is greatly appreciated! Congrats on the blog followers! That’s so super awesome! Your list of accomplishments motivated me to strive and push even harder! I’m also hoping to complete two books this month!

Well I’m reading right now “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***” which turns out to be very motivating lol 😂 . And I haven’t decided on a second book yet. And yeah I get a lot of follow/unfollows it’s just annoying idk how people grow that site.

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